The document provides resources and references for hacking your work through improved time management, optimizing Outlook, delegating tasks to interns, automating processes, and developing strategic HR skills. It includes book and website recommendations, as well as tips for setting boundaries with email and prioritizing tasks. The document aims to help readers work more efficiently and effectively.

1. HACK YOUR WORK
RESOURCES AND REFERENCES

2. Time Management
• Steven Covey: “First Things First”
• David Allen: “Getting Things Done”
• The Pomodoro Technique
• Dumb Little Man
• Simpler Work
• BOTTOM LINE: Make a list. Prioritize it. Do
the first thing. Do the next thing. That’s it!

3. Outlook Tips/Tricks
• Set up an “HR@YourCo” email address.
Use it for all resumes and ads.
• Disconnect from Outlook server for a set
time each day and turn off notifications.
• Use priorities and “waiting for” as
categories. Update and sort by them daily.
• Use the search bar in Outlook. Don’t allow
auto-archiving.

4. Interns
• Use an intern for all “Quadrant Three” and
“Quadrant Four” (not mission-critical)
functions. Anything you need to do but can’t
Automate or Eliminate, you’ll Delegate
• party planning, birthday cards, coffee runs
• responding to resumes
• filing
• data entry
• auditing payroll and benefits statements

5. “Hacking” Your Work
• Jason Fried: “Rework”
• Jenson and Klein: “Hacking Work”
• Tim Ferriss: “The Four Hour Workweek”
• Lifehacker
• 37signals.com and/or Weboffice.com
• Surveymonkey.com
• Craigslist
• Mechanical Turk

6. HR Tools, Updates, Communities
• SHRM Templates & Tools/Express Requests
• ERE Network
• HR Toolbox
• Workforce Management
• HR Morning
• Smartbrief on Workforce Daily Brief
• TLNT and FistfulofTalent
• HRHero for HR Law by state (costs $$)

7. Business/Strategic HR
• Dave Ulrich: “Delivering Results”
• Ralph Christensen: “Roadmap to Strategic
HR: Turning a Great Idea into a Business
Reality”
• Personal MBA (Free business education)
• Ten Minutes On Transforming HR (Next
steps and suggested metrics)
• Harvard Business Review Blog

8. Contact me!
Franny Oxford
408-372-6696
franny@frannyoxford.com